background: reading is known as one of the most important learning tools. research results consistently have shown that even a mild hearing impairment could affect the reading skills. due to the reported differences in reading comprehension skills between hearing impaired students and their normal hearing peers, this research was conducted to compare the differences between the two groups. the ...

severe congenital neutropenia is one of primary immunodeficiency disorders that characterized by severe neutropenia and is associated with severe systemic bacterial infections from  early  infancy.  granulocyte  colony  stimulating  factor  (gcsf)  is  clinically  used  as  a treatment for congenital and acquired neutropenia. the aim of this study was evaluation of gcsf (pd- grastim) in treatme...

based on a number of studies, magnesium sulfate (mgso4) given after a diffuse axonal injury has gained attention as a useful neuroprotective agent .the present study was conducted to examine if magnesium sulfate has a therapeutic efficacy and safety in patients with a severe diffuse axonal injury. adult patients admitted within 1 hour of a closed traumatic brain injury (tbi) with a severe diffu...

This paper describes a robustness issue of the transcoder under packet loss channel environments. We briefly introduce the conventional transcoder between AMR and G.729A speech coders, and analyze the performance of transcoder under frame erasure environments. In a tandemmethod even a single packet loss significantly affects to the parametric buffers of the successive frames because it should r...

This chapter explores the occurrence and dominance of cyanobacteria in some of the harshest environments on earth, the cryosphere, where extreme cold and the near absence of liquid water provide severe constraints on growth and survival. They are present in ice-based ecosystems including snow, glacier ice, lake ice and ice-shelves, and sometimes achieve remarkably high biomass concentrations. C...

Nursing leaders are indispensable in creating positive nursing work environments that retain an empowered and satisfied nursing workforce. Positive and supportive leadership styles can lower patient mortality and improve nurses' health, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, emotional exhaustion, and intent to stay in their position. The results of this study support the role of positive ...

The use of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in enterprise applications development is increasing very quickly. In a SOA environment providers supply a set of services that must be robust. Although SOA is being used in business-critical environments, there is no practical means to measure or compare the robustness of services. Robustness failures in such environments are dangerous, as they ca...

The diagnosis and management of severe sepsis and septic shock is a complex and dynamic process. Newer evidence-based interventions are constantly being developed and implemented with the purpose of improving morbidity and mortality. Current investigations are being performed in hospital environments to determine the change in behaviors and clinical impact with the most recent recommendations. ...